View of members of Wilfred ... George Dixon AkedView of members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party butchering an Arabian oryx in the Wadi Katabit. This oryx was likely shot by Muhammad bin Shuas, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Portrait of a small boy in Dubai
In the far distance beyond a stretch of flat sand marked with a few low dunes dotted runs into the horizon below a cloudless sky
leading their camels down a softly sloping dune
Portrait of a man taken at a village in Bal Qarn tribal territory in the region between Jabal Harfa and the Wadi Shaybanah
In the centre left foreground a man in a waistcoat and thobe (long shirt)
while at the far right another crouches in front of the hanging sail
The bow of the sambuk points towards ocean
and when twenty or thirty of them are en route from the pueblo to the harvest fields in the early morning their screeching can be heard for many miles around
View of a herd of cattle
Seated portrait of Wilfred Thesiger taken during his party's journey from the As Saruq sands to Abu Dhabi near the end of his second journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)
View of three members of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party loading up camels at Al Maghar well
In the foreground three women and a man are filling water skins